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US military's much-hyped hypersonic missile test abandoned after 'issue' onboard B52 | Daily Mail Online


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Failure to launch: US Air Force’s much-hyped hypersonic live-fire missile test abandoned after B52 bomber ‘unable to complete its launch sequence’ – The US Air Force’s first hypersonic AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon had been hotly anticipated – But the test was abandoned after the B52 bomber it was supposed to be fired from was unable to complete it launch sequence – The head of the Air Force’s armament program described the failure as a ‘setback’ – The hypersonic missile can travel at greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and is designed to be used…

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